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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 13, 2010Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2010, 6:27 AM CDT for Kinney County, Val Verde County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 2010, 6:27 AM CDT (11:27 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2010, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Kinney County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 28 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2010-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2954 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2010-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2954 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 13, 4:02 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 4:02 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 4:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
459 AM CDT THU MAY 13 2010

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-141100-
LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-
GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE-
MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-
FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT-
459 AM CDT THU MAY 13 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO BEGIN TO INCREASE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS...BUT THE GREATER THREAT WOULD BE LOCALIZED HEAVY
RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
FRIDAY INTO SUNDAY THE MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS
SEVERAL DISTURBANCES CROSS THE REGION AND A FRONTAL BOUNDARY
BECOMES STATIONARY. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. HEAVY RAINFALL WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING
WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. RAINFALL TOTALS IN SOME LOCATIONS MAY BE
3 TO 5 INCHES. AT THIS TIME...IT IS UNCERTAIN ON THE LOCATION AND
TIMING OF THE HEAVY RAINS.

AFTER SUNDAY A DRIER PATTERN WILL DEVELOP.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED AT THIS TIME.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 6:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney, Val Verde26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.